Morgenstern: 'The Spectacular Now' Is a Present to Us

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... the all ... the ... I just thought you guys ... like that ... it'll adding ... that it's the ... away ... one thing here ... the the ... one slide ... you're absolutely will ... not go ... well compare to vampire marriage proposals or girl fighting to the death of a bow and arrow the new adolescent film drama The spectacular Now he's under dramatize and is the better for and that is the opinion of our film critic ... Joe Morgenstern he joins me right now with Joe's take a gel ... when ... I came to the second is here Saturday is a pretty far cry from Edward Cullen in Twilight was insiders appeal ... it snowed you know boo hoo hoo for ... his appeal is the Infuse into them so very different from ours ... he thinks of themselves ... as the life of the perpetual party that scare me go way beyond high school ... he talks about having to live in the know how spectacular the know is ... what we see as a kid who has made no plans for the future whose stock in the know ... and whose bone for anything but who are ... then I he needs in this down and she is not really stuck in the now she has very specific projections for the future ... how their relationship affect each other's opinions of where they are now and where they will be ... will I wanna tell you where they will be and there's a question of where they will be a ... will be in the know but the sheer ... I'm ... and this girl whose name is Amy Finley Hughes played by shooting with glee if you remember her from ... her wonderful performances the older sister and with the sentence ... was this girl is nice ... to be a good reputation ... she makes a nice interesting ... to make a nice smart ... intelligent ... an enormously appealing ... together the ... match there but ... you wanna see them succeed ... here is a growing appetite right now for these for a slower pace more nuanced adolescence stories I think of the film UN I'd talk about a couple weeks ago ... I wonderful them you like to call The Way Way Back which sort of tell the slow adolescents story ... I do you think that Africa is growing for this category ... what this move and the truth is the movie is a little slow for my case ... and I sat there in the screening room making notes about ... wishing it were this enriching it with that ... I realized I'm just enjoying this enormously you know when that happens joining the fun ... this was by the same writers of the movie The five hundred days of summer which to me ... as a very classy very real feelings story of the young adult paints in law ... this one's stack up against five hundred is a summer ... well I think I've been like five hundred days of summer is brooches you did I admired that ... I knew that it was going to find the audience that it did but that it seemed awfully schematic and ... more an exercise in style than substance ... this movie is quite ... different it's much more substantial much more nuanced ... the same writers have used ... someone else's material of ... a very good well considered noble ... by road and Tim Clark ... and sold to the going ... got emotional refused to work with ... a mimosa that were ... extremely well with them ... I dial up or just a necessity you when I can compare notes about this in five days of summer always love talking to you thanks for being one who cut it into bankruptcy next week ... I ... I ... yup ... incidentally would you tell when Kate ... the ... euro be off next week and attention but the following week ... thank you ... I'd ...